Month: January 2021

Winning the first four events, the 200- and 50-yard freestyle claiming the top two spots, Chaska/Chanhassen took a 45-17 lead over Wayzata en route to a 99-79 win at Pioneer Ridge Middle School on Jan. 29.

The players on the floor for Southwest Christian boys basketball Jan. 29 at Belle Plaine “played heroically” instead of “trying to be a hero.”

Freshman Maddie Margraf was credited with 21 saves in her first career varsity win between the pipes, a 4-1 decision for Chaska/Chanhassen over host Minneapolis at Parade Ice Garden Jan. 30.

Playing on back-to-back nights, Southwest Christian/Richfield didn’t have enough in the tanks to climb out of a 4-1 hole, falling 6-2 to Hopkins at Chaska Community Center on Jan. 29.

Minnetonka sat in the locker room at Hopkins High School with a 13-point halftime lead over a Royals team that entered play Jan. 26 with 65 consecutive wins.

Staff at Guardian Angels Catholic School, a 100-plus-year-old K-8 school in Chaska, are deciding whether to close the building in the midst of financial difficulty caused by debt, according to the business administrator, principal and priest.

In a 3-to-2 decision, the Chaska City Council voted against allowing chickens in the city at its Jan. 25 meeting.

Senior captain Grant Sussner recorded a pin in 44 seconds, one of two victories for Chaska/Chanhassen in a 58-9 loss to Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted in a triangular Jan. 28 at Chanhassen High School.

Meeting for the second time in five days, some puck luck over the first two periods aided Holy Angels in reversing the first meeting score with Southwest Christian/Richfield, a 4-2 decision Jan. 28 at Richfield Ice Arena.

In the middle of frozen Lake Ann in Chanhassen, Mike and William Schrupp get ready for action.

Minnesota winter means we’re not only dealing with COVID-19 cases, but the cold and flu too.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the January 28, 2021 print edition of the Chaska Herald newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of…

February evenings offer some of the best conditions for viewing the famous winter constellations. This year they approach Mars from the east, ending the month with the Pleiades star cluster closing in on the red planet. Meanwhile, the rising of…

One of the first challenges superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams championed upon her arrival to Eastern Carver County Schools in July 2020 was asking principals throughout the district to identify the students who struggled the most with distance learning at the end…

Many metro teachers who were supposed to be prioritized for vaccines were placed on wait lists after schools sent out far more invites than a mass vaccination event will be able to fill and some recipients shared the sign-up information…

New Carver County commissioners Matt Udermann and John P. Fahey were sworn in on Jan. 4.

Are you feeling satisfied with yourself and your life? We got to thinking about this because it’s so easy to compare yourself to someone else. We were looking through social media and noticed all the people baking beautiful breads. We…

Halfway into his four-year term, Governor Tim Walz announced Jan. 25 that after two years of conversations with educators, school leaders, education organizations, students, and families, it is time to direct Minnesota in a new direction.

The esteemed journal Kirkus Reviews each year compiles a list of top fiction in various genres. For romance, the best of 2020 includes: